The Mendota Gunslinger? The Story of Texas Jack.

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Today we tell a story with echoes of the Wild West…along with a twist! We unravel the mysterious life of Jack Vermillion of Mendota, Virginia, a man who many say once walked the dusty streets of Tombstone, Arizona, alongside the legendary Earp brothers.
Join hosts Steve Gilly and Rod Mullins as they journey through the tangled tales of a figure many believed to be the notorious Texas Jack Vermillion!
Was the Jack Vermillion laid to rest in Mendota the same man who earned his fame in the deserts of Arizona?
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19 апр 2024

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@cherylmoore3349 5 месяцев назад

Interesting story thanks ❤

@nat-fp1pq 5 месяцев назад

There is a bar in Fairbanks Alaska called Soapy Smiths :)

@conniehughes2532 5 месяцев назад

Well the story burst the bubble of the family we've been told for years and years that my husband was distantly related on the huge side of the family to Texas Jack

@StoriesofAppalachia 5 месяцев назад

True, when that writer from Australia found those papers it was a shock, that’s for sure! A lot of folks fell like you..,

@castironskilletgranny 6 месяцев назад

Soapy Smith supposedly got his name because of one of his cons. He sold soap with money prizes inside. Went from town to town selling this soap

@StoriesofAppalachia 6 месяцев назад

You've taught me something I didn't know...a very original con, indeed!

@hauntedmoodylady 5 месяцев назад

I've read of Soapy Smith, I never gave any thought to how he came by his name..

@michaelcampbell3172 5 месяцев назад

That's true, but only the first bar of soap contained money, which obviously the con-man working with Smith would buy the soap containing money. Prompting others to buy the soap at inflated prices in hopes of winning money. That's why he's known as Soapy Smith.

@TNDRIVER 2 месяца назад

It's still possible that he and the Earps met and worked together in Dodge City, Kansas, or could have crossed paths in Missouri as Wyatt was a constable and lost his first wife to Small Pox also in the same general time. So it could be Wyatt who worked with both Texas Jacks. As Paul Harvey, so aptly put I will throw a could be along with the rest of the story line.

@lawrenceterry9283 6 месяцев назад

The movie Wyatt Earp the one with Kevin Costner the beginning of that movie sounds awfully similar to the beginning of Texas jack where his young wife died!